General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has received a potential $3.2 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build six replenishment oilers. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract has a base value of $640 million for the initial T-AO 205 class fleet replenishment oiler, which could be followed by&nbs...
An ASRC Federal business unit has won a 10-year, $207.9 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to provide on-site test operations, engineering and technical personnel for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The Defense Department said Thursday personnel from ASRC Federal’s space and defense segment — ...
Airbus Group and Safran have completed the merger of their space launch operations through a joint venture in an effort to support commercial sector clients in Europe. Safran will pay approximately $835 million to Airbus in order to acquire a 50-percent stake in Airbus Safran Launchers joint venture, Airbus said Thursday. Airbus CEO Tom Enders...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index added at least one full percentage point for the second session in three Thursday to complete a reversal of its losses stemmed from the two-day selloff in global financial markets after Britain’s Thursday vote to leave the European Union. The GovCon Index closed up 2.066 percent to 79.5...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 21 companies positions on a potential five-year, $750 million contract to provide command-and-control systems and related support services to the Department of the Navy. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic in Charleston, South Carolina, awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract throug...
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has awarded investment consulting contracts valued at up to $4 million each to AON Hewitt Investment Consulting, Mercer Investment Consulting, NEPC and RVK, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. David Thornton writes the companies will bid on financial management and s...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index staged a second consecutive session of recovery Wednesday from the post-Brexit shock that loomed over global financial markets during the prior two trading days with McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK) as the top driver of gains with the prime defense stocks and platform also top performers. The GovCon Index closed ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2016 ” Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) will provide its underground data center in western Pennsylvania as primary colocation provider for NEC‘s SAP HANA private cloud service, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The WPA-1 data center works to host the SAP HANA service for NEC and facilitate compliance, security...
Jonathan Whitcomb, president of the technical services segment at engineering and scientific services contractor Dynetics, will retire from the company after a two-decade career there on July 1. Dynetics said Tuesday that Stephen Cook, a corporate vice president, has been appointed to the role of acting president for the segment....
Maria Bishop, corporate controller of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed as interim chief financial officer of the company and will continue to serve in her current role. The company said Tuesday Bishop will take over the CFO responsibilities from John Hartley, who announced ...
